The Virgin Suicides
Movie • 1999 • Drama
ReportA group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
This movie contains 42 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
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Cecilia leaves the room without saying goodbye
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Is someone stalked?
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iloveyou.com
the boys in the movie may seem to have good intentions, but when you really think about it, is reading a dead girl's diary, stealing their makeup to smell it, watching a girl having sex through binoculars, etc really a sweet, innocent thing to do? So yes, the Lisbon sisters are stalked, which is the reason for their suicides as all they wanted was a friend, but instead were sexualised further and stalked even after they died.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Heavily misguided parental repression
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Addiction
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Trip smokes pot
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iloveyou.com
The father is seen drinking/spacing out while mourning Cecilia's death. I can only imagine he was probably drinking quite heavily throughout the movie, however not much of it is shown. Lux also drinks underage at prom under the influence of her date Trip.
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Bodily Harm
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Cecilia cuts her wrists to kill herself in the first scene
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Three of the girls commit suicide by cutting off their airways. The suicide isn't shown but their bodies (the graphic parts obscured by clever camera angles and darkness) are briefly shown.
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Is there a hanging?
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Shown at (1:23:42-1:23:58)
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Mary puts her head in an oven (not shown, only mentioned) and Lux dies from carbon monoxide poisoning (Her arm is dangling out the window of the car and it's implied that she is asphyxiated).
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Are any teeth damaged?
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There is mention of a tooth needing to be capped following an accident.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Why did people answer no?! Cecilia getting impaled (therefore breaking her spine) is the main plotpoint!
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Is someone tortured?
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It depends what your definition of torture would be. (spoiler) Their mom grounds them in the house indefinitely, barring them from any interaction with the world outside of their house, and burns their records.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Who answered no to this!? Someone falling to their death is a major plot point in the film.
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Is there excessive gore?
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I wouldn't say excessive, but in the first scene where Cecilia is shown in the bath after slitting her wrists, the water is pink from blood and her white dress is stained slightly pink, a few drops of blood from her wrists is shown as she's being carried out by paramedics. She does survive this first attempt though.
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Does a kid die?
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4 teenage girls
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Is a minor sexualized?
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lux is known to be the most rebellious of her sisters, so she kind of sexualises herself, but could be interpreted as a coping method for her struggles
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Therese does, on sleeping pills, neither the pills or her body is shown.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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(1:06:42-1:08:29) A distraught teenager is forced to burn her beloved records
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Fear
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Towards the end there's imagery of one of the girls legs hanging behind a boy. Not really an abrupt jump-scare but still suddenly alarming.
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Are there ghosts?
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It's not a horrific ghost depiction. It's just one of the sisters that died being seen by people a few times. She's not mutilated or scary looking- just looking as she was when she was alive.
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Mentioned but not shown
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Is there a shower scene?
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whoever said she is found dead is incorrect. she isn’t found dead but she is laying in a bloody bathtub after cutting herself in an attempt to kill herself. she is taken to a hospital
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Does someone vomit?
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At the end there is a party where someone vomits. You can hear it, but it's not visible.
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There's scene where Trip and Lux are about to hold hands and a kid makes a loud fart noise
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Law Enforcement
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The whole premise of the movie is about how messed up society is, so no.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Cecilia is shown bandaged in hospital, no needles, gore, wounds, etc shown.
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after a girl attempts suicide she awakens in the hospital
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Mental Health
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It's explicitly stated they have PTSD in the book, and they show more subtle signs of it throughout the movie but there's no intense flashbacks or anything
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Cecilia slits her wrists as a cry for help, only the pink water and a few drops of blood is shown
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Cecilia tries to slit her wrists, she later sucessfully commits suicide after impaling herself. all the other sisters also kill themselves at the end.
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Is there misophonia?
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Katla
Gum chewing
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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All sisters kill themselves, but there is no talk of them having any prior suicidal thoughts.
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The Virgin Suicides
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Cecilia is seen in a bathtub and part of her body/face is covered in water
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Gross teenage boys say things like "smell my fingers" and there is cussing
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Paranoia
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there is brief mention of a neighbour being a nazi sympathiser but they aren’t shown in the movie
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Is there hate speech?
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Not necessarily explicit hate speech, but all boys in the movie refer to women as objects and sexualise them. For example:
"The OBJECT of his desire was..."
"Can't I feel one of them up just once?"
"The OBJECT of his desire was..."
"Can't I feel one of them up just once?"
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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A neurodivergent kid is made to show his "weird" and "funny" behaviour as entertainment. They aren't necessarily bullying him when they do it but it's very iffy behaviour on their part. Clearly, Cecilia (one of the people in the group of kids watching this boy) is unamused by their idea of "funny" and she's upset that the world sees women and neurodivergent people as entertainment.
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Race
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Relationships
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Lux flirts with adult men and they flirt back.
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Sex
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Non-graphic sex / canoodling is shown briefly at two points near the end
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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All the women in this movie are extremely objectified to the point that they get so distraught by it, among other things too, that they are driven to suicide.
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Are there nude scenes?
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cecilia is shown in the bathtub at the start of the movie but is fully clothed
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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All the girls are dead, but the boys still continue to miss the point and objectify them more, The parents leave the house crying, and the boys make a toast to the Lisbon sisters, claiming that they "loved" them. There is no sequel and no closure. No one read the room and decided to stop being perverted and the neighbourhood remained more or less the same, apart from their decline in car sales thanks to Lux's suicide method and the empty house that used to be the sanctuary of the 5 Lisbon sisters, who's lives were taken thanks to this cruel world.
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Is there blood/gore?
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A very little amount of blood but no gore
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